Lurker > Aristoph

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Ive owned 3 of the version 3 versions before upgrading to 3 of the latest version 4 litter robots.

It took me like 5 tries to parse this sentence. XD

Lazuriel

Side note: my username is the name of my first ever DnD character from back in high school.

Skies of Arcadia: Legends

I've done at least a dozen 100% playthroughs. Only reason it's been a couple years since I last played it is because I gave my GameCube to my niece and nephew. Maybe I should get it back just for a bit to have another go.

A remake or a sequel are the only games I would buy a new console for. If Nintendo released a brand new console and the only game that would ever be available for it would be Skies of Arcadia 2, I would fucking preorder it. Love that game so much.

Hayame_Zero posted...

George isn't at home.

It is impossible for me to hear that song without thinking of the answering machine.

nekrodev posted...

I mean, most of us were probably teens when the game came out, it's hardly surprising that we would've been very into, or at least okay, with this

This. I was 16 when it came out. Rikku was my dream girl. The scene of her taking off the al-bhed bodysuit was...well let's just say I kept a separate save file right before that cutscene... XD

To be fair, I'm sure they are spending lots of time thinking about it...

Hexenherz posted...

what browser is that

Opera

But more importantly, what kind of fucking savage doesn't maximize their browser window? O_o

My laptop has a little built-in plastic piece you can slide over the camera. It's got a pretty satisfying click, too.

Saw the topic title and immediately said gear durability before clicking. It's such a universally stupid mechanic that has never once improved my experience with any game. It is just a straight-up negative with no pros and a thousand cons.

I will happily cheat or use any exploit that circumvents durability systems in any games I play, even on the first playthrough. I'm not interested in having the devs' "intended experience." I'm interested in having a fun experience. And there's nothing fun about repairing or replacing gear constantly.

Orange

My favorite is still the infinite pitch black stairwell.

Game Theory was one of my favorite college math courses.

I've been bowling in 2 leagues every week for decades, so those are kinda guaranteed. But other than that, most of my "hanging out" is online, chatting in Discord and playing games together. I don't really feel the need to invite people around IRL because everyone I want to see is either at the bowling alley or living in another time zone.

Symbiotes or Sandman are really the only correct options here.

NocturneD85 posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/9/9b2ecc4e.jpg

My mom is a teacher. We had one at home. My friends and I did some stupid shit with that thing, but we all managed to keep all of our fingers somehow.

Final Fantasy X. I still remember seeing it for the first time. My buddy had just gotten it on the day of release, and we were getting together for DnD and video games that night. Since a few of our DnD characters were split up, he and I weren't playing the first part of the session. So he popped in FFX to kill the time until our turn was up. By the time he got to the intro Blitzball cinematic, the DnD game was completely forgotten and we all ended up just watching him play for like 10 hours straight that night.

I was driving our DM home the next day and just pulled into the parking lot for GameStop without saying a word. We each bought a copy and the DnD campaign was officially put on hiatus for like 2 weeks while everyone just wanted to play more FFX. Been in love with the genre ever since.

Trumble posted...

Look closely at the host if you need a hint.

Never needed it, but I've never noticed that either.

TMOG posted...

Ohio gets summer, winter, and a twice-yearly transitionary month where those two seasons are in a battle for superiority.

This is so accurate. XD

Had a customer pay with 2 movie $20 bills before. It wasn't intentional. She was a nanny for a couple and had just gotten paid that night. Turns out the dad works on movie sets and had accidentally mixed up the prop money. She was mortified, but my coworker and I thought it was hilarious. XD Told her she could take the stuff and pay for it next time cause she was a regular in the mornings.

Yeah, I'm ok with that. I wonder how dystopian it would be in 8417?

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Genuinely expected this to be the first post. It's what I came in to say.

I'd had the dude tagged for quite a while and he repeatedly lived up to the tag. His recent topics continued the trend. I get posters having a gimmick, it can be entertaining at times. But that's a really fucking weird one to take on.

I'll just say I'm not surprised and leave it at that.

If the human body is too hot, it sweats. And it's one of the most effective/efficient cooling systems in the animal kingdom. You can replace the lost water by simply drinking more.

If the human body is too cold, it cuts off blood circulation to the extremities and literally sacrifices pieces of itself to keep the major organs slightly warmer for a very limited time.

Give me heat 10000000% of the time with no exceptions. Being cold is miserable. There's no comparison.

None.

I haven't needed one for over 20 years. I think I'll be fine.

Fortnite and CoD are the obvious choices.

To everyone pointing out non-newtonian fluids, liquids are pretty hard to wear as clothing.

These guys are making a fabric/polymer of some sort with similar properties. That's the new part. It's a solid.

NPC posted...

The solution that I am sure every pet owner would be satisfied with

You would be hilariously wrong.

I wish we had one closer to my house. The nearest is like a 30 minute drive. :-/

There was one in college that was literally a 5 minute walk from my freshman dorm. My buddies and I ate there constantly. It was so damn good. But I haven't had them in probably 10 years.

Strength = you deal damage by overpowering or forcing your way through their defenses.
Dexterity = you deal damage by hitting weaknesses in their defenses with precision

They both make perfect sense and are not remotely the same thing.

SauI_Goodman posted...

I don't know who that is but judging by your post he's some kind of big star. Shows a lot of humility imo.

Matt Mercer is probably best known for being the dungeon master for Critical Role (by far the biggest D&D actual play show on the internet). But the dude's list of credits would stretch half way around the goddamn globe. He's an incredible voice acter and he's in everything. Seriously, just go to his IMDB and start scrolling. You've heard his voice before, I guarantee it. And he does seem to be a genuinely great dude as far as I'm aware.

With USB-C becoming the standard, it's not as useful anymore. But I always liked the ability to plug in a USB the right way on the first try every time.

I'll definitely be up watching it live. I just hope we get an exciting race at least once this year.

"Bender, honey, we love you."
"Shut up, baby, I know it!"
*pimp struts out the door*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2ZdJtJo4Ok

tankboy posted...

Fencing requires very little space and the equipment is relatively cheap.

It's not so much that it's cheap, as swords, masks, and scoring systems can be fairly pricey. It's that it's literally designed for sword fighting, so it's super durable and rarely needs replacing. It's a one-time investment.

Baseball, indoor soccer, and bowling as a kid. But those were never affiliated with school. Baseball was your typical youth sports league. Indoor soccer was similar, but we had to drive 45 minutes to the next town because ours didn't have a facility or league. Don't fully remember how I ended up starting that in the first place, but it was really awesome. And bowling leagues are kind of a family tradition. My parents met in a bowling league, and my brother and I have both been bowling competitively in leagues and tournaments for decades.

And then there's the one I always get shit for whenever I mention it. I was a fencer for my high school and competed in the state tournament twice. And everyone always immediately assumes "privileged rich asshole" but I swear it was just a normal public school. We just got really really lucky. There was a student who happened to be born and raised in our town who, on his own time with his family, had been training with aspirations to become an Olympic fencer. He was one of the top ranked youth fencers in the entire country. The kid was an absolutely insanely good fencer. He just happened to attend the same public high school, and his junior year just because he thought it would be fun, he asked the school if they would sponsor a fencing club and he and his parents, who clearly had plenty of experience, offered to coach for free. They also had plenty of spare equipment like swords and masks with his Olympic training connections, so people could try it out before dropping hundreds of dollars on an admittedly expensive school sport. It was so much fun, and getting to watch him basically troll everybody in every match against other schools was wild. XD

Trash-tier game that ruined what was, up to that point, my favorite series of all time. Fucking garbage game that was more interested in chasing shitty CoD trends than improving Halo. Loadouts, reticle bloom, and armor abilities ruined Halo.

At least the single player campaign was good. But we all know you bought Halo for multiplayer, and Reach multiplayer was a drastic and embarrassing downgrade for absolutely no reason. And it straight-up destroyed Halo esports.

The game killed Halo. Bungie didn't even want to make it, and it showed. But they were forced to in order to get their independence from Microsoft (along with ODST). Bungie wanted Halo 3 to be the end of the franchise. But M$ refused to let them stop making their cash cow. So they basically just used it as practice for the game they really wanted to make (Destiny, with more extensive loadout customization and more extensive abilities).

I will never understand why so many people love the game that ruined one of the greatest franchises of all time.

The really sad thing is that Republicans could have easily passed the bill and then spent the rest of the election season bragging about how they had solved the problem. You know, like a normal government should function.

But they're not interested in governing. They're only interested in oppressing. And hate works better for that.

HylianFox posted...

ngl people who equate ephebophilia with pedophilia are annoying

There's a pretty big difference between a person who's 17 and a person who's 7

While you're not wrong, let's not pretend that people using ephebophilia aren't more often talking about the difference between 11 and 14. >_>

famfam posted...

I'm supposed to be upset by this but be completely ok with it if the girl was 18?

I mean, you do have to draw a line somewhere. Though I'm not sure why the line for creepy is 18 when the majority of the planet sets the line for legal at 16. You'd think those would be the same line one way or the other, no?

Late 30's is probably gonna win.

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I have never in my life sat down and thought "why won't this PC work?" when there was no PC in front of me. That's not a brainfart. That's dementia.

Also reddit karma.

I keep telling myself I should get one, but I still haven't done it. I see so many fucking idiot drivers around here.

Now there's a throwback.

Played and loved the first one. But I don't own a PS5, so I've been waiting since Forbidden West released for the PC port coming this week.

If it gives me the option to say 'no' and keep browsing, I'll do that. If there's no option to refuse, I close the tab and find a different site.

divot1338 posted...

I just thought of the best pickup line for that place.

https://youtu.be/WlI9YEdoA3E?si=7rDeFkVMMLgCrvrl&t=73

Date a bowler. You won't believe what we can do with 2 fingers and a thumb. ;-)

IdiotMachine posted...

Harkonnen seems like a macho/strong society. So why would they drug the Atreides prisoners before they have them fight the skinnier nephew?

They want to appear macho/strong. But they also want to make sure they themselves are not in danger. Feyd-Rautha was actually excited when he realized one of the Atreides prisoners wasn't drugged, and that it was a test from his father the Baron.

IdiotMachine posted...

Why did Paul fire nuclear missiles behind the army, instead directly at them? These bombs dont seem to be world-ending powerful, so strategic missiles against the well grouped army seems to have been a better option.

He wasn't trying to destroy the army with the nukes. He used them to blow a hole in the mountain-wall surrounding the city in order to get in with the sand worms.

IdiotMachine posted...

How come majority of these soldiers seem to not have any of those shields up, and the fremen are tearing through them so easily? The first movie made it very clear you have to attack in a specific fast-but-slow method to pierce those shields; its very clear the fremen are not fighting like this, nor were there any scenes that showed them being trained to fight like this.

Stylistic choice, I guess. I'm pretty sure the Sardaukar were all using shields in the book. Probably would have been one hell of a CG budget to add shields for every soldier during the fight scenes and likely wouldn't have looked very good. So they just ignored them for practical reasons. The point of the shields basically was just to force hand-to-hand combat, and they didn't really need an excuse for that in the movie.

IdiotMachine posted...

Paul releases the fremen to go attack the other houses in the air/space. How do the fremen know how to pilot the emperors spacecrafts?

They don't. The spacecrafts are all piloted by Guild Navigators. Since they are so infused with Spice, they will literally die if they lose their supply or are removed from their Spice-infused water tanks. As such, they follow whoever controls the Spice.

IdiotMachine posted...

I didnt understand the significance of walking through the desert in that dancing way. Why walk like that? If its to avoid the worms, how come they dont always walk like that?

Rythmic sounds are what attract the worms. They walk like that on the sand because it obscures the sound of their footsteps, making it sound more like sand being blown by the wind than the footsteps of a creature, so the worms will ignore it. They don't do it all the time because there are many places where the worms can't reach due to rock near the surface or the sand being too shallow.

IdiotMachine posted...

If the worms can be summoned so easily, be driven around like trains and devour everything in their path, are bulletproof, and arent harmed by missiles, why havent the fremens used it as a weapon?

Since there's lots of places the worms can't reach (the capital Arrikeen being the biggest example, hence the nukes to blow a hole in the mountain to let them in), they wouldn't be much help in a proper full-scale war on the planet.

IdiotMachine posted...

If the emperor can very easily tell the south has human activity, how did the harkonens miss that?

Why was the emperor so quick to get rid of the harkonens (destroying Barons life support and his spine thingy)?

They didn't miss it, they were lying to the emperor when they told him they didn't know about the activity in the south. They knew about it, they just couldn't do anything because the storms were too extreme for them to get their ornithopters through and they were too arrogant to believe that the Fremen were enough of a threat to be worth the effort.

The Baron had designs on the imperial throne for himself (well, for his son Feyd-Rautha, as his puppet), and the Emperor knew it. His failures on Arrakis were all the excuse the Emperor needed to get rid of him, even if he didn't get the chance to finish it himself before Paul arrived.